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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.91
Ancient Greek
p. 832Πλάτωνος Νόμων αʹ
Ἢ τοῦτο οὕτως ἐρωτηθέντες εἴποιμεν ⟨ἂν⟩, ὡς ἑνὸς μὲν βραχὺ τῇ πόλει γίγνοιτ’ ἂν ὄφελος, εἰ δ’ ὅλως ἐρωτᾷς παιδείαν τῶν παιδευθέντων, τί μέγα τὴν πόλιν ὀνίνησιν, οὐ χαλεπὸν εἰπεῖν, ὅτι παιδευθέντες μὲν εὖ γίγνοιντ’ ἂν ἄνδρες ἀγαθοί, γενόμενοι δὲ τοιοῦτοι τὰ τε ἄλλα ἂν πράττοιεν καλῶς, ἔτι δὲ κἂν νικῷεν τοὺς πολεμίους μαχόμενοι. παιδεία μὲν οὖν φέρει καὶ νίκην, νίκη δὲ ἐνίοτε ἀπαιδευσίαν· πολλοὶ γὰρ ὑβριστότεροι διὰ πολέμων νίκας γενόμενοι, μυρίων ἄλλων κακῶν δι’ ὕβριν ἐνεπλήσθησαν, καὶ παιδεία μὲν οὐδεπώποτε γέγονε Καδμεία, νῖκαι δὲ ἀνθρώποις πολλαὶ δὴ τοιαῦται γεγόνασί τε καὶ ἔσονται.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 833Plato, Laws I
Or, when asked this question in this way, we ⟨would⟩ reply that one person would bring little benefit to the city.1216 But if you are asking generally about the education of those educated—what great benefit it brings the city—it is not hard to say that those educated well would become good men. Once they were such, they would act well in other matters and would even defeat their enemies in battle. Education, then, brings victory too; victory, however, sometimes brings lack of education.1217 For many, made more insolent by victories in war, were filled with countless other evils through their insolence. Education has never been Cadmeian, but many human victories have indeed been so, and will be.1218
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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